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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We have the highest chronic disease burden in the world.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #639

Published February 12, 2026 | Video Starts at 40:59

Yeah. Do you think America is sicker than ever these days? It is sicker. We're the sickest country in the world. We have the highest chronic disease burden in the world. That's one of the reasons during COVID we had 19% of the COVID deaths in our country, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. (40:59–41:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. has the highest chronic disease burden globally.

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“Medicaid and Medicare, there's about 100 billion stolen every year.”
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“Hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars were being stolen, shipped to Somalia to fund a terrorist group.”
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“We've told the companies they got to get rid of all of them [food dyes].”
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“The big study that they use to prove safety has now been retracted.”
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“We are right now using AI to revolutionize the Freedom of Information law so that people are going to be able to get Freedom of Information…”
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